League Of Women Voters Mark Voting Rights Laws With Vigilance
From today’s Charleston Chronicle: The day of August 6 marked the 54th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For many the monumental civil rights event…
Abrams: We Cannot Resign Ourselves to Dismay and Disenfranchisement
From today’s New York Times: In the mid-1960s, when my father was a teenager, he was arrested. His crime? Registering black voters in Mississippi. He and my mother had joined…
Native Americans fighting back against North Dakota voter ID law
From today’s NBC News: For more than a year, Tiffany Hunts Along has lived in a cherrywood mobile home high on a ridge in western North Dakota, where she knows…
GA election fight shows that southern tradition of voter suppression flourishes
From today’s PBS Newshour: Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an Associated Press investigation revealed a month before November’s midterm election…
In Georgia, claims of voter suppression as GOP candidate abuses Voter ID law
From today’s Washington Post: Stacey Abrams, the Democrat vying for the governorship of Georgia, is ratcheting up her assertion that Republican rival Brian Kemp is effectively suppressing minority and women…
North Dakota voter ID law upheld by Supreme Court could affect Senate race
From CBS News Online: The Supreme Court ruled this week to uphold a North Dakota voter identification law which requires that voters present an ID which includes a residential address…
Framers fail: Voting is a basic right but it’s not guaranteed in Constitution
From today’s USA Today: The Founders unwisely gave states control of the vote. The upshot is we’re headed for separate democracies: restrictive red ones, expansive blue ones. In 1835, William…
Clear and troubling picture of voter suppression: ‘One Person, No Vote’
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Near the end of “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy,” Carol Anderson reminds us that “voting is neither an obstacle…
Under Trump Regime, Sweeping Shift on #VotingRights Undermines Democracy
From today’s New York Times: A new voter ID law could shut out many Native Americans from the polls in North Dakota. A strict rule on the collection of absentee…
Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says
From today’s NBC News: Nine states with a history of racial discrimination are more aggressively removing registered voters from their rolls than other states, according to a report released Friday.…